Routing different domain addresses to peer-to-peer on XP/OL2003

[outlookneedhelp]

Dear all,
This may be a no-brainer, but I am new to Outlook. I have been given
the following task:
There are 3 pc users (XP / OL2003) on a peer-to-peer network.
They have a domain e.g. xyz.com.
Person A needs to be able to send and receive as (e-mail address removed)
Person B needs to be able to send and receive as (e-mail address removed)
Person C needs to be able to send and receive as (e-mail address removed) and also
receive any
other e-mails which are not a or b or (e-mail address removed)
Can this be performed through rules?
I contacted their ISP but they were unhelpful.
Person 1 at the ISP said that they (the ISP) would have to create
aliases.
Person 2 at the ISP said this was wrong and Outlook would have to be
configured and they would charge (a lot) for someone to come down to do
it.
I have spent considerable time looking in the Outlook newsgroups and a
couple of Outlook books at the library but have not found any suitable
replies/info as to what would seem to be an elementary question.
Would some kind soul please help this tortured one.
Thank you.

 

[Noel All]

Tell the ISP that you need 3 mailboxes and make 1 off the mailboxes the
catchall account. If they give you grieve or charge and arm and a leg then
move ISP.

 

[outlookneedhelp]

Thanks to you as well Noel All

Does the ISP make aliases in addition to the mailboxes or are the
mailboxes themselves aliases - confused by this!

Thanks.

 

[Noel All]

Each mailbox would have its primary address i.e. (e-mail address removed) and then you
would have the secondary addresses which are the alias i.e. (e-mail address removed).
Your ISP would do all of this. Anything not sent to the primary or secondary
addresses will be caught in the catchall account.

 

[outlookneedhelp]

Thanks again Noell All

Would you be so kind as to explain very simply an example of how
aliases actually work.
This is the piece in the jigsaw that is eluding me.
E.g. from received e-mail to primary address then alias then Outlook.
Would each primary and/or secondary address need separate passwords?

Thank you.

 

[Noel All]

So you have a Primary address of (e-mail address removed) and an alias on the account of
(e-mail address removed), both a and z belong to the same mailbox account and mail to
either is routed by the mail server to the appropriate mailbox. The mailbox
has only one user name and password and this is all Outlook needs to know
when it polls that account.

 

[outlookneedhelp]

Thank you Noel All for all your help.

I hope that when I phone their ISP later on today, I will now have good
ammunition to make sure they don't trick my clients into services they
don't need.

Cheers.

 

[Noel All]

Good Luck